Wade's Dedication

I have been meaning to post about Wade's baby dedication that we had at church last Saturday. Wade did really well and we had a great time. It was so different than other dedication's I have been to. Growing up at my old church your family would go up to the alter after the service and the preacher would ask you a few questions and the pray for the family and give your child a bible. Hope is such a big church that they have a couple of dates for dedication services throughout the year. There were probably 15 or so families dedicating their children. We were asked to invite family and they had all the families sit at big tables. They served cake first while everyone talked and then one of our pastor's talked and had us do a little table discussion. (we had some homework questions that we shared with our family) After that he prayed for all of the families they did a slide show with all of the kids pictures. It was so cute. Then we all headed up front and were presented with a bible for Wade and a book for Josh and I to read. It lasted about 45 minutes and was really nice. They did it Saturday afternoon right before the first Saturday service so we all stayed for church. Luckily Wade did better in nursery and really only cried the last 10 minutes or so. He actually played this time. Hopefully we are making some progress. Here are some pictures from his dedication.

Wade in his sweet white outfit

Our table

May 8th, 2010

Wade's Godparents

Not wanting to be still for a picture

Family

After church we all headed back to our house for a cookout. The weather was great and we had a great time. Thanks to both of our families for such a fun time and for bringing such great food to share. We even had some friends from Florida stop by. (they are interested in Raleigh and came down to see the area). It was a great day!